Hands shaking so badly, I can hardly type. Ate a burrito and now a banana. My bgl was 69. I'm going to make an appt with the doc and buy those glucose tablets everyone recommends.
My only other alternative to eat was sugar, but I didn't know if I should do that.

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Even if you do everything right, such as eating right, exercise, take you medicines ,,and keeping your A1c very low, you still still walk away from the doctors office feeling like you have done something wrong,
Such as I did today, I have brought my A1c from 16 to 5,8 and kept it there for...

Check out this fun and inspirational book from a lawn care expert and lifetime Type 1 called "The Joy of Diabetes."
See my review at http://www.diabetesmine.com/2008/05/lawn-care-guy-spreads-joy-of-diabetes.html

I was talking with someone yesterday and they relayed to me that they heard that most people do not know what an A1C test is, meaning they wouldn't know what their personal A1C is. Is this true? If you don't want to be identified, please post back as Anonymous in your reply. Thanks.

Considering the cost of diabetes testing, and other supplies needed for dealing with Diabetes, what else can we do?
What else can we do, well, we could try all the things we can think of to do to control this disease.
What about exercise? Are you exercising? Not just daily movements, but...

Diabetes is like owning a car, regularly scheduled maintenance, only the diabetes requires more frequent tune ups. I would hate taking the car in every 3 months. I gotta admit I don’t love taking the kids in either.
Full blog entry at:
http://ydmv.blogspot.com/2008/03/tune-up.html

Our endo has flat out said he doesn't want to see our kids below 6.7. The ability to feel lows is a function of deviation from the norm and that when kid get A1C much lower they don't feel lows as much or at all.
He keeps telling us about one patient (fictitious for all I know) who's parents...

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